Max is a Senior Program Associate for EA Community Growth at Open Philanthropy. Previously he was the Chief of Staff at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research, and worked in research and project management at the University of Oxford. He is also a board member at the Center on Long-Term Risk. Max holds a master’s in mathematics from Heidelberg University.

Open Philanthropy

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Max Daniel

Asya Bergal works as a Program Associate at [Open Philanthropy](https://www.openphilanthropy.org/). Previously, she worked as a researcher at [AI Impacts](https://aiimpacts.org/) and as a trader and software engineer for a crypto hedgefund, She's also written for the [AI alignment newsletter](https://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/) and been a research fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI). She has a BA in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

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Asya Bergal

Elie Hassenfeld is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of GiveWell.

He helps set the strategy and oversee the work of Open Philanthropy, in addition to leading the History of Philanthropy project and serving as co-Executive Director of GiveWell. Elie has a degree in religion from Columbia University and spent several years in the hedge fund industry before co-founding GiveWell in mid-2007.

GiveWell

Elie Hassenfeld

Michelle is Assistant Director of the One-on-one team at [80,000 Hours](https://80000hours.org/). Before that, she set up the Global Priorities Institute, did the operational set-up of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and ran Giving What We Can. She has a PhD in global priorities research from Oxford University. 

80,000 Hours

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Michelle Hutchinson

Kieran Greig is the Chief Strategy Analyst at Rethink Priorities. He works with the Leadership Team to advise on Rethink Priorities’ strategy and execution, at all levels. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research  for Farmed Animal Funders, a group of large donors who each give over $250,000 annually to end factory farming.
He previously worked as a researcher at [Animal Charity Evaluators](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/), and prior to that was a co-founder of [Charity Entrepreneurship](https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/) and [Charity Science Health](https://www.suvita.org/). He has written about topics like [improving the welfare of farmed fish](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/research/reports/farmed-fish-welfare-report/) and [supporting plant-based alternatives to animal products](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eMMfBhAwrnCCxkJyz/farmed-animal-funders-custom-shallow-review-on-selecting). He has a B. Sc. from Monash University and a Masters from La Trobe University.

Rethink Priorities

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Kieran Greig

Luke is one of the first major donors from the early days of effective altruism. He has performed extensive research into the most effective and promising meta initiatives and has gained a strong understanding of their strategies and funding gaps. He has spent 50% of his time on EA-related philanthropy over the past 7 years and has donated millions of dollars to EA organizations during this time. Luke’s early donations played an important role in the rapid growth of the Centre for Effective Altruism, 80,000 Hours and Founders Pledge. Luke has supported Charity Science since inception and, more recently, EAF, Effective Giving and Rethink Charity.

Previously, Luke worked for 6 years as a senior partner at Brevan Howard, a top 10 hedge fund during that period. He founded the firm’s foreign exchange fund and managed $3 billion across the organization. Before this, Luke was a managing director at Merrill Lynch and Natwest. Luke read Medicine at Oxford University.


Luke Ding

Nicole conducts analysis on broad community health questions and provides internal consultation to other teams at the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA). Before joining CEA, Nicole worked at the Open Philanthropy Project, GiveWell, and the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai.


Centre for Effective Altruism

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Nicole Ross

Catherine is the main contact for community health support for groups, and also works on assessing and mitigating risks to the EA community. She currently sits on both the Community Health team and the Groups team at CEA, where she provides support to effective altruism groups around the world. Before joining CEA, Catherine managed the Students for High-Impact Charity program and taught science, physics, and ethics at the high school level. She was also heavily involved in EA community building across New Zealand and Australia. Catherine holds a PhD in physics from the University of Melbourne.

Catherine Low

Jesse coordinates work to provide scalable support to university effective altruism groups around the world. Prior to joining CEA, he worked on criminal justice reform at Just Impact and Open Philanthropy. He has an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and studied political science at Carleton College.

Jesse Rothman

Rob leads the groups team at CEA, focused on supporting in-person groups (university based, city based, workplace based etc.) as well as virtual programs - a fully online course that enables discussions on EA topics. Before joining CEA, Rob worked at McKinsey & Co. as a technology consultant

Rob Gledhill

[Jonas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasvollmer/) serves as an advisor at EA Funds. He is a co-founder at the [Atlas Fellowship](https://www.atlasfellowship.org/), a program for talented young people, and previously led EA Funds as its Executive Director. He also co-founded and led the [Center on Long-Term Risk](https://web.archive.org/web/20220207010703mp_/https://longtermrisk.org/), a research group and grantmaker aiming to reduce long-term risks from artificial intelligence. He holds degrees in medicine and economics with a focus on public choice, health economics, and development economics. He previously ran a ballot initiative that [doubled Zurich's development aid](https://web.archive.org/web/20220206055332mp_/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dTdSnbBB2g65b2Fb9/eaf-s-ballot-initiative-doubled-zurich-s-development-aid), helped launch an ongoing [campaign](https://web.archive.org/web/20220206055332mp_/https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/animal-rights_swiss-to-vote-on-banning-factory-farming/45233958) to ban factory farming in Switzerland, and played a key part in establishing the effective altruism community in continental Europe.

Executive Director at Effective Altruism Funds

Atlas Fellowship

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Jonas Vollmer

Fynn works on AI governance and safety field-building and risk-mitigation, particularly for work relating to international coordination. Fynn is an incoming research scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and previously worked in China-focused analysis at Sinolytics.

 Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

Fynn Heide

Participants at EA Global

You can donate to any of the EA Funds by following [this link](https://app.effectivealtruism.org/donations/new), or clicking the blue button at the top of each Fund’s page.

First, choose the Funds or organizations you would like to make a donation to. You can choose up to 10 Funds/organizations as part of a single allocation.

If you are donating to more than one Fund/organization you'll need to choose how to split your donation between them. By default, all the sliders will be split equally between the Funds/organizations you've chosen. To change this, simply drag the sliders around until you have the allocation you want.

How do I make a donation using EA Funds?

The EA Infrastructure Fund makes donations to a range of different interventions. Some of these are likely to be higher-risk, but potentially higher-return opportunities. The nature of the space means that impact may be less certain, and some projects are new, and may not yet have a long track record. Overall, we classify the Fund as 'medium' risk.

[Read more about how we think about risk at EA Funds](/funds/about/risk).

What is the risk profile of the EA Infrastructure Fund?

__Expert team with a strong track record__

Sourcing and evaluating any effective charity is complex and time-consuming for individual donors. Doing the same for meta charities is typically even more challenging. This fund is managed by a team of experts with over 25 years’ combined experience researching and donating to meta organizations. The team has a strong network across the effective altruism community, which is extremely valuable in identifying and evaluating new opportunities. All team members have a track record of being early donors to promising opportunities such as the [Centre for Effective Altruism](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/) and [80,000 Hours](https://80000hours.org/).

__Due diligence and context__

While meta organizations can offer very promising opportunities for impact, some projects may take too many risks and could potentially cause lasting damage to the brand of effective altruism. Due diligence and sufficient context are highly important. The expert team offers donors extensive and valuable experience in assessing meta projects and identifying potential risks.

#### Gain knowledge

An aspirational aim of the fund is to use the team’s knowledge and experience to support donors to learn more about EA meta organizations and expand their giving in this area. The fund will publish triannual updates on capital distributions and the reasoning behind the grants made.

#### Save charities' time

Donors often take up large amounts of time for senior management at charities. While there are benefits to these interactions up to a point, beyond that it can become an excessive cost to the team. By donating together, we can work more efficiently and reduce this effect.


Why donate to the EA Infrastructure Fund instead of donating directly to individual organizations?

EA Funds is a platform supported by [Effective Ventures](https://ev.org/) (EV), a registered non-profit which aims to build a strong effective altruism community. As such, it is a potential recipient of funding from the EA Infrastructure Fund.

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), an EV organization, has previously been granted funding from the EA Infrastructure Fund, both as unrestricted funding for general operations, as well as restricted funding for specific projects, in particular its [EA Community Building Grants](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/community-building-grants/) program. CEA may be a recipient of grants in the future. In addition, the Fund has granted to independent projects that are legally part of EV, including [80,000 Hours](https://80000hours.org/) and the [Forethought Foundation](https://www.forethought.org/), and may do so in the future.

The EA Infrastructure Fund management team is independent of EV, and goes through the normal, public application procedure when applying for grants. Potential conflicts of interest are governed by the EA Funds Conflict of Interest policy, and Fund managers who are closely associated with potential grant recipients are required to recuse themselves from advocating for grants.

Will the EA Infrastructure Fund make grants to Effective Ventures Foundation or related projects?

The EA Infrastructure Fund accepts applications for funding. Please submit your application by using the link below.

[Apply here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeID5kjD9zsvlwgqB3hlX54EINg6_pY6sYl4hm7s-bYuDGiwA/viewform)

Can I apply for funding to the EA Infrastructure Fund?

Peter Wildeford is the Co-Executive Director and co-founder of [Rethink Priorities](https://rethinkpriorities.org/), a think tank dedicated to figuring out the best ways to make the world a better place. Peter has been heavily involved in the EA community since 2012 and is excited about building a large and robust social movement around improving well-being for people across the world, for nonhuman animals, and for future generations. Prior to working in EA, Peter was a data scientist in industry for five years.


Peter Wildeford

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Michael Aird

Emma is a Stanford student studying Computer Science on the Biocomputation track. She leads Stanford Effective Altruism, works with the Global Challenges Project, and co-founded the EA Internship Board.

Assistant Fund Manager

Emma Williamson

Assistant Fund Manager for the Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund.

Tom Barnes

Conor Downey

The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.

_The EA Infrastructure Fund was formerly named the EA Meta Fund. [See our EA Forum post for more information](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5vGy5uDkd9M5Txg9m/the-ea-meta-fund-is-now-the-ea-infrastructure-fund)._

EA Infrastructure

Fund Chair

Max Daniel, Fund Chair, EAI

Fund Manager

Michelle Hutchinson, Fund Manager, EAI

Peter Wildeford, Fund Manager, EAI

Effective Altruism Infrastructure

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Because of the speculative nature of the space in which the Fund operates, and the difficulty of making judgements about which actions are likely to positively impact the long-term future, grants made by the fund are likely to be higher risk than those made by other Funds.

For more information on how we think about grantmaking risk, please read our [Risk Profiles page](/funds/about/risk).

What is the risk profile of the Long-Term Future Fund?

To make an effective donation, individual donors must spend a lot of time answering questions about which interventions are most likely to make progress in this area, which organizations are most effectively executing these interventions, and which organizations have funding gaps that are unlikely to be filled through other sources.

For areas such as global health and development or animal welfare, donors can get guidance from charity evaluators like GiveWell or Animal Charity Evaluators. No such organizations exist which focus on improving the long-term future.

Finding promising opportunities in this area is therefore especially challenging for individual donors. The fund managers have strong networks in this area which they can use to identify and evaluate new opportunities. In particular, they have a track record of being early funders of promising organizations like [CSER](https://www.cser.ac.uk/) and [FLI](https://futureoflife.org/). These opportunities are very hard for individual donors to find without first building strong networks in the space.

Why donate to the Long-Term Future Fund instead of donating directly to individual organizations?

The Long-Term Future Fund accepts applications for funding. Please submit your application by using the link below.

[Apply here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdg63O8i7N2HR4LCJeqF0G7OYqEtyLlZ5kvZzvqUqXebmV9w/viewform)

Can I apply for funding to the Long-Term Future Fund?

Oliver Habryka is the current project lead for [LessWrong.com](https://lesswrong.com), where he tries to build infrastructure for making intellectual progress on global catastrophic risks, cause prioritization, and the art of rationality. He used to work at the Centre for Effective Altruism US as strategic director, ran the EA Global conferences for 2015 and 2016, and is an instructor for the Center for Applied Rationality. He has generally been involved with community organizing for the Effective Altruism and Rationality communities in a large variety of ways. He studied Computer Science and Mathematics at UC Berkeley, and his primary interests are centered around understanding how to develop communities and systems that can make scalable progress on difficult philosophical and scientific problems.

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Guest Fund Manager for the Long-Term Future Fund

Guest Fund Manager

Thomas Larsen

Guest Fund Manager for the Long-Term Future Fund.

Matthew Gray

The Long-Term Future Fund aims to positively influence the long-term trajectory of civilization by making grants that address global catastrophic risks, especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics. In addition, we seek to promote, implement, and advocate for longtermist ideas, and to otherwise increase the likelihood that future generations will flourish.


Asya Bergal, Fund Chair, LTF

Oliver Habryka, Fund Manager, LTF

Linchuan Zhang is a Research Manager of the General Longtermism team at Rethink Priorities, where he focused on highly scalable longtermist interventions. He previously worked as a researcher there, where he worked on several different research contracts, including scoping out the research landscape and challenges of widespread cultured meat production. Previously, he was a software engineer at Google Travel. In addition, he worked on several forecasting projects, mostly around Covid-19. He also worked as a data science intern at Impossible Foods, and volunteered extensively at Giving What We Can. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics, with a minor in International Relations.

Linchuan Zhang

Long-Term Future

Lewis Bollard is the Program Officer responsible for farm animal welfare at [Open Philanthropy](http://www.openphilanthropy.org/). He leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for [Farm Animal Welfare](http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare). Before joining Open Philanthropy, he worked as Policy Advisor & International Liaison to the CEO at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Prior to that, he was a litigation fellow at HSUS, a law student, and an associate consultant at Bain & Company. He has a B.A. from Harvard University in Social Studies and a JD from Yale Law School.

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Lewis Bollard

Battery Hens in Indonesia

The Animal Welfare Fund makes donations to a range of different interventions. Some are likely to be more proven interventions, while others are likely to be higher-risk, but potentially higher-return opportunities. As such, we categorize the Fund’s risk level as ‘low-medium’.

For more information on how we think about grantmaking risk, please read our [Risk Profiles page](https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/about/risk).

What is the risk profile of the Animal Welfare Fund?

The Animal Welfare Fund makes grants on the regular EA Funds grantmaking schedule, with recommendations made in February, July, and November each year.


How often does the Animal Welfare Fund make grants?

[Animal Charity Evaluators](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/) (ACE) is a charity evaluator specifically focused on evaluating animal charities and conducting research in the animal welfare space. ACE has two research programs. The first is their Evaluation Program which comprises all the work ACE does to recommend charities based on their performance on [four criteria](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/approach/evaluating-charities/evaluation-criteria-charities/#full-criteria-template). Donors interested in improving animal welfare may want to consider donating directly to ACE’s Recommended Charity Fund. ACE also has a [Recommended Charity Fund](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/recommended-charity-fund/).

ACE’s second research program is their Movement Grants Program. It is  overseen by a different set of people than those responsible for the EA Animal Welfare Funds’ decisions, and they have their own views about which organizations are most effective. Still, their Movement Grants Program is intended to strengthen the global animal advocacy movement by giving grants to animal advocacy groups worldwide. The corresponding Movement Grants Fund is also an option for donors who are interested in funding groups working on various approaches to animal advocacy, especially those that are underfunded, target large numbers of animals, and are in regions with a relatively small animal advocacy movement.  Therefore, it has a similar scope to Animal Welfare Fund.

The Animal Welfare Fund’s management team may also choose to support high-value organizations that might not qualify as ACE Top Charities. For example, the fund could support newer but still-promising organizations with less evidence to support them, or organizations with smaller funding gaps.

What other donation opportunities exist in this space? How is the Animal Welfare Fund different from a donation to Animal Charity Evaluators’ Recommended Charities or EAA Fund?

The Animal Welfare Fund accepts applications for funding. Please submit your application by using the link below.

[Apply here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7FCkqgaqN1nyUqUswPh3AKHzlY2NGRWgvg-RDv5-k8yOccQ/viewform)

Can I apply for funding to the Animal Welfare Fund?

Alexandria is the Director of the [Open Wing Alliance (OWA)](https://www.openwingalliance.org/) at [The Humane League](https://thehumaneleague.org/). She oversees a global coalition of more than 70 organizations working to end the abuse of chickens worldwide, with a focus on institutional campaigns to ban battery cages for egg-laying hens. Since 2017, Alexandria has led the coalition's growing grant program and overseen the distribution of over 3.7 million dollars to support OWA groups’ corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns.

Open Wing Alliance

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Alexandria Beck

Marcus A. Davis is the Co-Executive Director and co-founder of [Rethink Priorities](https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/), a think tank dedicated to figuring out the best ways to make the world a better place. He leads their research and strategy, focusing on animals. Prior to that he was a co-founder of [Charity Entrepreneurship](http://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/) and [Charity Science Health](https://www.charitysciencehealth.com/).

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Marcus A. Davis

Mikaela Saccoccio is the Executive Director of Farmed Animal Funders (FAF), a donor learning community whose members donate USD $250,000 or more annually to charitable initiatives fighting factory farming. She brings together 35 foundations and high-net-worth individuals to build connections, foster collaboration, and amplify impact. Previously, Mikaela worked at [The Humane League](https://thehumaneleague.org/) to end the abuse of animals raised for food.

Farmed Animal Funders

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Mikaela Saccoccio

Karolina is co-founder and Director of Research at [Charity Entrepreneurship](https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/). There, she creates a research agenda and processes and leads the research team, aiming to find and compare the most evidence-based, cost-effective, and neglected interventions in multiple cause areas. She also serves as a board member and advisor for various EA nonprofits and think tanks, such as [Fish Welfare Initiative](https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/), [WANBAM](https://www.wanbam.com/), and [Legal Priorities Project](https://www.legalpriorities.org/index.html).

Before Charity Entrepreneurship, she co-founded an organization to improve the impact of nonprofits and social enterprises; worked on measurement and evaluation; and was a researcher for IBM and the Jagiellonian University (JU). At the age of 22, she became a university teaching fellow, lecturing at JU’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Charity Entrepreneurship

Karolina

Karolina Sarek

Dr. Neil Dullaghan is a senior researcher in Rethink Priorities' farmed animal welfare team, with expertise in European Union policy. He holds a PhD in Political & Social Science from the European University Institute, an MPhil in European Politics & Society from the University of Oxford and a BA in International Relations from Dublin City University. He has volunteered for Charity Entrepreneurship & Animal Charity Evaluators.

Neil Dullaghan

Dave Coman-Hidy is a Partner at Sharpen Strategy. After spending over a decade leading The Humane League, he now focuses on advising animal rights organizations, helping them become more sustainable and impactful.

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Dave Coman-Hidy

Zoë Sigle is the Senior Global Corporate Engagement Manager at Mercy For Animals. She leads an international team in engaging with multinational food companies to improve their farmed animal welfare policies. She holds a Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy degree from Vermont Law School and a BA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Mercy For Animals

Zoë Sigle

The Animal Welfare Fund aims to effectively improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, by making grants that focus on one or more of the following:

- Relatively neglected geographic regions or groups of animals
- Promising research into animal advocacy or animal well-being
- Activities that could make it easier to help animals in the future
- Otherwise best-in-class opportunities

Kieran Greig, Fund Chair, AW

Marcus A. Davis, Fund Manager, AW

Mikaela Saccoccio, Fund Manager, AW

Karolina Sarek, Fund Manager, AW

Animal Welfare

Families receiving antimalarial bednets in Senegal

The Global Health and Development Fund makes grants across a number of risk profiles.

It is currently looking for higher-risk, but potentially higher-return opportunities to grant to. These will typically be opportunities that GiveWell researchers have identified as having the potential to be very effective, but that are not established enough to be recommended as GiveWell top charities.

If the Fund cannot find any higher-risk, higher-return projects to grant to, it will periodically publish updates, and may choose to either roll the money forward and put it towards future opportunities, or to grant it to GiveWell top charities.

You can read a recent update about the Fund's grantmaking approach [here](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/F42BX8su2ZEquaicL/a-change-to-the-grantmaking-schedule-of-the-effective). For more information on how we think about grantmaking risk, please read our [Risk Profiles page](/funds/about/risk).



What is the risk profile of the Global Health and Development Fund?

The Global Health and Development Fund will make grants as it identifies promising opportunities.

To ensure timely disbursement, it plans to allocate all unallocated funds in a six month period to GiveWell top charities in February and August. However, it may choose to hold funds for longer if it has already granted out a substantial proportion of the funds available during the preceding six months or is close to concluding an investigation into a promising grant.

The Fund has committed to publishing updates at least twice a year, explaining how it has decided to allocate its money.

_Previously, the Fund disbursed funds three times a year. You can read the rationale for updating the Fund's grantmaking schedule [here](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/F42BX8su2ZEquaicL/a-change-to-the-grantmaking-schedule-of-the-effective)._

How often does the Global Health and Development Fund make grants?

The Global Health and Development Fund is managed by Elie Hassenfeld, [GiveWell](http://www.givewell.org)'s co-founder. GiveWell is an organization that conducts research into the most promising and effective charitable giving opportunities, with a focus on Global Health and Development.

This fund supports charities that the fund manager believes may be better in expectation than those recommended by [GiveWell](http://www.givewell.org/), a charity evaluator focused on outstandingly effective giving opportunities. For example, by pooling the funds of many individual donors, the Fund can support new but promising global health charities in getting off the ground (e.g. [Charity Science Health](http://www.charitysciencehealth.com/) or the [Innovation in Government Initiative](https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/innovation-in-government-initiative/december-2018-grant)).

If no such options are available, the Fund will likely donate to GiveWell for regranting. This means we think there is a strong likelihood that donating to the fund will be at least as impactful as donating in accordance with GiveWell’s recommendations, but could be better in expectation.

How is this Fund different from donating to GiveWell's top charities?

The Global Health and Development Fund is managed by Elie Hassenfeld, [GiveWell](http://www.givewell.org)'s co-founder. GiveWell is an organization that conducts research into the most promising and effective charitable giving opportunities, with a focus on Global Health and Development.

Elie believes GiveWell's top charities are excellent giving opportunities, which are evidence-based, cost-effective and could productively use additional funding to directly help people living in poverty. Donors who would prefer to exclusively fund this type of opportunity should either give to GiveWell for regranting to top charities at its discretion, or give directly to one of GiveWell's top charities.

More recently, GiveWell has been doing more [exploratory research](https://blog.givewell.org/2019/02/07/how-givewells-research-is-evolving/) to identify promising giving opportunities outside its traditional criteria, such as organizations working to assist in the creation of effective policy, or early-stage organizations. Donations to this fund are intended to support opportunities identified through that work, which was previously funded by Open Philanthropy through [GiveWell Incubation Grants](http://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants).

Thus, until GiveWell finds opportunities that surpass Open Philanthropy's available funding, donations to this fund are most likely to either:

(a) displace Open Philanthropy funding of Incubation Grant-like opportunities (and cause that funding to instead go to GiveWell's top charities), or

(b) go directly to GiveWell's top charities.

Nonetheless, donating to this fund is valuable because it helps demonstrate to GiveWell that there is donor demand for higher-risk, higher-reward global health and development giving opportunities.

If the Fund is managed by the head of GiveWell, why doesn't it just recommend that people give to GiveWell or its top charities?

The Global Health and Development Fund is not currently accepting applications for funding.

Can I apply for funding to the Global Health and Development Fund?

[GiveWell](https://www.givewell.org/) is a research organization that searches for the most cost-effective ways to help people living in low- and middle-income countries and publishes all its research online to help donors decide where to give.

GiveWell's research team supports fund recommendations in the following ways:

1. investigating new, high-impact giving opportunities in both direct intervention and policy; 
2. making recommendations for seed or scaling grants to promising charities that may eventually be recommended by GiveWell; and 
3. maintaining an ongoing understanding of the future needs and funding gaps of current recommended charities in order to recommend grants that maximize donor impact.

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GiveWell Staff

The Global Health and Development Fund aims to improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.

We fund outstanding projects focused on social impact

Whether an individual, organisation or other entity, we’re eager to fund great ideas and great people.

Have a high-impact project that needs funding?

Usually between $5,000-100,000,

Open to all entity types,

Quick & easy to apply

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